A mashup of link sharing plus news aggregation, Virl is a place to shorten your URLs, upload photos, and spread the news. 

The first thing you see when you check out the site is this blue monster guy asking you what you would like to do?  You can tell it you want to upload a photo or shorten a URL.  Pretty simple right?

Well that is only half the web site.  The other half gives you the popular posts from a number of different resources, like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Buzz and more. 

A virtual mix of both link sharing and shortening – this web site has a lot of potential, however my first suggestion would be to shrink down their monster guy on the top of the page.   Why?  There is no way I would want to scroll that far down every time I check out the page to see some of the popular headlines out there from their various news sources listed on the site.  Go see how viral Virl is for you.